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Features
By Sean Murphy
Mingus Ah Um sounds like the 20th Century: it is a self-portrait of a man who helped define the direction of post-bop jazz, commenting on the country that created him. [8 July 2009]
By PopMatters Staff
Psalm 100 instructs, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!". What more joyful sound than the life-affirming song of protest, for that is the sound wrenched from the deepest grief and suffering, from exhausted and diseased lungs, and the voice raised in tuneful protest is among the most beautiful of human sounds. Sing out, indeed! [16 July 2007]
By Michael Keefe
This newly remastered version of the Mingus classic still sounds crazy after all these years -- crazy good! [11 July 2007]
Reviews
By Chadwick Jenkins
If you enjoy great composition, then this is for you. [18 May 2009]
By Sean Murphy
All Mingus asked for was the impossible. More often than not, he achieved it. [2 November 2006]
By Sarah Zupko
Mingus returns to his bass on The Clown and delivers one of his finest sets of compositions.
[1 January 1995]
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